Futureseek Daily Link Review; 1 April 2020

* Mind-reading AI turns thoughts into words using a brain implant >>
* Why you should delay your Zoom calls until quarter past the hour >>
* OpenTable launches tool to help you avoid long lines at restaurants, grocery stores >>

* Amazon workers walk out over lack of protective gear amid coronavirus >>
* Machine translation of cortical activity to text with an encoder–decoder framework >>

* Future of retail online checkout >>
* Blood test shows promise for detecting the deadliest cancers early >>
* Microsoft outlines more new features coming to its Chromium-based Edge browser >>

* Microsoft to enable new 5G edge computing scenarios with Azure Edge Zones >>
* Covid-19 Ethics: Who Gets A Ventilator? >>
* Introducing Service Directory: Manage all your services in one place at scale >>

* TED: how_we_can_navigate_the_coronavirus_pandemic_with_courage_and_hope >>
* NBA.FM will try to simulate the 2020 season as if everything is fine >>
* The Story Out of Wuhan Is Not Very Comforting >>

* Countries threaten jail for april fools day jokes about coronavirus >>
* Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is deemed an essential business by US government because ‘national security’ >>
* Airships Haven’t Been Able to Get Back Up Off the Ground—Until Now >>

* Virtual Vertica Big Data Conference 2020 | Digital Event >>
* Keynote Analysis | Virtual Vertica BDC 2020 >>
* Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha) >>

* Building Better Telco Clouds >>
* The Telecoms.com Podcast: COVID-19 blues, MWC refunds and 5G patents >>
* NTT DoCoMo quits NB-IoT >>
* SD-WAN security: The richness of multidimensionality >>
* FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021 >>

* The Cybersecurity Fallout from Coronavirus >>
* Digital Anarchist Live: TechStrong TV – March 31, 2020 >>
* Observability in Java Getting Started with OpenTelemetry >>
* By voice or location, Israeli apps can determine your risk of coronavirus >>

* It’s Time to Face Facts, America: Masks Work >>
* I went to a sneaker launch in VR because of the coronavirus >>
* How Valve brought Half-Life to VR >>

* So, uh, I think Catalina 10.15.4 Broke SSH? >>
* Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls >>
* T-Mobile and Sprint are finally merging: What you need to know about the $26.5 billion deal >>

* Why I am volunteering to get the coronavirus vaccine >>
* How 3D printing could save lives in the coronavirus outbreak >>
* Ventilator firms are racing to boost production as the pandemic >>

* Fitbit finally launches a Charge tracker with built-in GPS >>
* Facebook deletes Brazil president’s coronavirus misinfo post >>
* Engineers 3D print soft, rubbery brain implants >>

* The timetable for a coronavirus vaccine is 18 months. Experts say that’s risky >>
* Kubernetes and Beyond: An Interview With Kelsey Hightower [Podcast] >>
* Zoom isn’t actually end-to-end encrypted >>

* Disney+ to launch in India on April 3 >>
* Despite pandemic, gaming is well-positioned to withstand recession >>
* Comcast Details What the Coronavirus Has Done To Network Traffic >>

* Cnvrg.io launches a free version of its data science platform >>
* Charge a Car Battery in 5 Minutes? That’s the Plan >>
* Amazon draws criticism for firing employee who led coronavirus protest >>

* Airbnb will pay hosts $250 million to help cover cancellations due to COVID-19 >>
* 3 Questions: Jonathan Parker on building an economic recovery >>
* 7 Questions to Raise Immediately After You’re Laid Off >>

* The (New) Great Depression >>
* Help Profs Teach Stanford’s Popular, and Now Free, Online Intro to Coding Course >>
* Even a computer the size of the universe can’t predict everything >>

* Decoherence Is a Problem for Quantum Computing, But … >>
* COVID-19 tracking map shows multiple strains of coronavirus spreading across the world >>
* Programmable Material Could Speed Production of Photonic Integrated Circuits >>

* Microsoft’s News Bar adds a scrolling news feed to Windows 10 >>
* Architects And Engineers Are 3d Printing Medical Gear During Pandemic >>
* Campus Is Closed, So College Students Are Rebuilding Their Schools In Minecraft >>

* Lessons Learned by NYC Makers Producing Personal Protective Equipment for Medics >>
* Weekly Space Hangout: April 1, 2020 – Dr. Robert B. Hayes and Radiation Shielding in Space >>

* Production of NASA’s new X-59 supersonic jet continues amid coronavirus outbreak >>

* NASA’s Mars Helicopter makes last spin on Earth before before July launch >>
* India’s space agency pauses rocket launches to make coronavirus supplies: report >>
* China’s new crew spacecraft looks like it could dock with the International Space Station >>

* Cybersecurity Fallout from Coronavirus >>
* Coronavirus: UK considers virus-tracing app to ease lockdown >>
* The 3 Most Promising Coronavirus Treatments, Explained https://elemental.

* Kpt: Packaging up your Kubernetes configuration with git and YAML since 2014 >>
* Expert Disaster Preppers Explain How to Ride Out the Coronavirus Pandemic >>
* COVID-19, Humanity 2.0, and The New Normal >>

* Why is everyone deleting Houseparty app? Should you delete too? >>
* A rapping professor. A cat in class. Pornography on Zoom. How online classes work at colleges during coronavirus >>
* Rancher 2.4 Takes Kubernetes to the Edge with Path to 1 Million Clusters >>

* NSW Police signs six-year biometric identification deal >>
* COVID-19: Australia’s new app, WhatsApp chat, and telehealth launch >>
* Peak evening demand still the network capacity challenge >>

* Storage with Kubernetes >>
* CloudHub Technology Architecture >>
* Dow is on track for its worst quarterly performance since 1987 >>

* Chinese trial vaccine may be tested abroad >>
* YouTuber Attempts To Make Aerogel, The World’s Lightest Solid >>
* Coronavirus: Man runs 50k – around his house >>

* A ‘rapid shift to a new way’ for supermarket business >>
* Covid 19 coronavirus: Wild goats take over deserted Welsh town during lockdown >>
* From swords to plows: IAI seeks to battle coronavirus with UV-light tech >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 31 March 2020

* MIT Researchers Launch Tech-Based Contact Tracing >>
* Your Favorite Celebrity is Going Live on Instagram >>
* The Hustler’s Guide to Nursing Jobs >>

* A Helpful Visualization That Shows Whether Or Not We’ve Succeeded In Stopping Coronavirus >>
* Universal mask-wearing is the most overlooked >>
* The Social-Distancing Culture War Has Begun >>
* Virtual Simulation Explains Why Social Distancing Is The Best Strategy >>

* Radio Corona: managing remote work in the era of Covid-19 >>
* How 3D printing could save lives in the coronavirus outbreak >>
* Gig workers are set to strike today demanding better protection from coronavirus >>

* Online grocery deliveries are facing an unprecedented stress test >>
* Morning After: FDA clears five-minute lab-in-a-box COVID-19 test >>
* A 5-Day Plan to Keep Your Company Afloat >>

* Watch Japanese Spacecraft Hayabusa2 Blast A 17.6-Meter-Wide Crater Into An Asteroid With A Cannon >>
* NASA reveals images of its all-electric X-57 Maxwell plane that will be 500 per cent more efficient >>
* NASA to participate in SpaceX engine anomaly investigation >>

* Stratolaunch reveals updated fleet, including two hypersonic aircraft and a space plane >>
* Bird and Lime layoffs, pivots in a COVID-19 era and a $2.2 trillion deal >>
* US Space Force’s Space Fence orbital tracking system is officially operational >>

* Must We All Become More Creative Due to the Pandemic? >>
* This Quirky Zoom Setting Can Make Your Private Snarks Public >>
* Tiny Wormlike Creature May Be Our Oldest Known Ancestor >>

* How Decades of Offshoring Led to a Mask Shortage in a Pandemic >>
* Microsoft Edge is getting smart copy and paste, a password monitor and vertical tabs >>
* Microsoft Teams is coming to consumers — but Skype is here to stay >>

* Amazon warehouse workers are walking out and Whole Foods workers are striking >>
* Introducing Dark Mode (beta) for Stack Overflow >>
* The second wave of unicorn layoffs is brutal >>

* Hackers Begin Exploiting Zoom’s Overnight Success to Spread Malware >>
* Inside G.M.’s Race to Build Ventilators, Before Trump’s Attack >>
* Hackers Used Local News Sites to Install Spyware On iPhones >>

* Forrester’s Surprising Discovery About Robotic Process Automation >>
* What Has COVID-19 Taught Us About Information Networks? >>
* Consumption rebounds amid signs of recovery >>
* China keeps engine roaring to ensure global medical supplies amid pandemic >>

* 5G network operators will need to think big to justify the huge price tag >>
* ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ gets an unofficial 4K remaster thanks to AI >>
* Coronavirus Patients Should Lie on Their Stomach and 500 Get Scuba Mask Ventilators >>

* Australia’s new app, WhatsApp chat, and telehealth launch >>
* Economy to shrink, deficit to surge as virus runs amok >>

* Trump touts TV ratings as death toll climbs >>
* India: COVID-19 death toll climbed to 32 while the number of cases spiked to 1251 >>

* Digital Anarchist Live: TechStrong TV – March 30, 2020 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 March 2020

* 16 Minutes on the News #28: Drugs & Debates — Real World Data, Randomized Controlled Trials >>
* TED: Seth Berkley (Head Gavi,Vaccine Alliance) takes us inside effort to create a vaccine >>
* Why Houseparty is the perfect app for those stuck in lockdown >>

* How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting Everything Down >>
* Cashierless stores and online deliveries are the future of supermarket shopping >>
* TED: What the world can learn from chinas response to the coronavirus >>

* Chennai artist creates coronavirus-inspired helmet for cops >>
* Capitalism is Literally Killing America >>

* Sorry, conspiracy theorists. Study concludes COVID-19 ‘is not a laboratory construct’ >>
* Everything You Can Watch on Quibi When It Launches Next Week >>
* Lab-in-a-box test can detect COVID-19 in 5 minutes >>

* Coronavirus: pathogen could have been spreading in humans for decades, study says >>
* Anthony Fauci says millions of Americans face infection, 200,000 could die >>
* New trailers: Killing Eve, Upload, Murder House Flip, and more >>

* How Russia is using authoritarian tech to curb coronavirus >>
* Scott Morrison upgrades social-distancing restrictions as Australia’s COVID-19 infection rate falls >>
* US needs to tackle the coronavirus pandemic with a playbook out of the Great Depression and World War II, not the financial crisis >>

* The SIR Model of Epidemics >>
* US officials use mobile ad location data to study how COVID-19 spreads >>
* All parts of UK ‘on emergency footing’ – minister >>

* AWS Ground Station >>
* Satellite internet startup OneWeb declares bankruptcy to look for a buyer >>
* The Science of This Pandemic Is Moving at Dangerous Speeds >>

* How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure >>
* OneWeb reportedly heads into bankruptcy and SpaceX might be next >>
* Joy King, Vertica | CUBEConversations >>

* AI Can Help Scientists Find a Covid-19 Vaccine >>
* An ER Doctor Describes What It’s Like to Treat Covid-19 >>
* Security News This Week: Chinese Hacking Surges Amid Coronavirus Crisis >>

* Alone Together; This American Life >>
* How To Save The Economy Now; Planet Money >>
* DevSecOps & OpenShift w/ Kirsten Newcomer, Red Hat >>

* EKS vs GKE vs AKS Evaluating Kubernetes in the Cloud >>
* Politics Podcast: COVID-19 Has Started A New Economic Era >>
* Experts say U.S.-China cooperation vitally important for global fight against COVID-19 >>

* Coronavirus: a global consumer default wave is just getting started in China >>
* The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life >>
* The Virus Has Transformed the 2020 Elections. Here’s How. >>

* The virus as a Vector for power use >>
* Covid 19 coronavirus: New target date for Tokyo Olympics set for July 2021 >>
* This map that shows a major problem for the US >>

* Cringely Predicts 2020 Will See ‘the Death of IT’ >>
* Doctor Who has broadcast a heartwarming ’emergency transmission’ to help us through pandemic >>
* Infinite Visions Were Hiding in the First Black Hole Image’s Rings >>

* To Answer Dire Shortages, This Healthcare Team Designed, 3D-Printed, and Tested Their Own COVID-19 Swabs in One Week >>
* Washington Health Metrics Forecasts 40,000 to 160,000 COVID-19 Deaths for USA >>
* Americans consume the most toilet paper in the world but it’s a very wasteful product to manufacture >>

* Business as Usual Is On Hold—Even at the EPA >>

* US Space Force launches satellite after short delay >>
* Microsoft: Cloud services demand up 775 percent >>

* 2020 Detroit Auto Show canceled as venue becomes a field hospital >>
* We Should Message Extraterrestrial Civilizations, Not Just Listen for Them >>
* The US coronavirus death toll has surpassed 2,000, doubling in just 2 days >>

* Billionaire refuses to pay sick leave after keeping stores open because ‘God spoke to him’ >>
* Indian scientists imaged novel Coronavirus under a high-powered microscope >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 March 2020

* An experimental peptide could block Covid-19 >>
* Will a home antibody test for covid-19 really be a game changer? >>
* A new COVID-19 test can return results in 5 minutes >>

* The a16z Podcast: Security When the Workforce is Remote >>
* Silicon Valley Tries Disrupting Coronavirus Response >>
* FortiGuard Labs | CUBEConversation, March 2020 >>
* Stanford’s Margot Gerritsen on Data Science and Women in Tech – Ep. 111 >>
* Kelsey Hightower and Ben Sigelman Debate Microservices vs. Monoliths >>
* Engadget Podcast: How games (and Animal Crossing!) are keeping us sane >>

* Stanford University offering CS472 data science and AI for COVID-19 >>
* Video streaming – and (gasp!) even traditional TV – gain lift during pandemic >>
* COVID-19 Reaction: Massive Spike in IT Incidents >>

* Italy’s coronavirus death toll passes 10,000. Many are asking why the fatality rate is so high >>
* From Spain to Germany, Farmers Warn of Fresh Food Shortages >>
* Donald Trump mulls quarantines for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut >>

* SpaceX to deliver cargo to NASA’s lunar Gateway station using a new ‘Dragon XL’ spacecraft >>
* SpaceX SN3 Starship Stacked and Will Test Hop 150 Meters Next Week >>
* US keeps millions of chickens in secret farms to make flu vaccines. But their eggs won’t work for coronavirus >>

* Unemployment in Israel surges past 20%; almost 700,000 jobless sign up in March >>
* The official jobless numbers are horrifying. The real situation is even worse. >>
* As pandemic hits startups, electric scooter unicorn Bird cuts staff by 30% >>
* SpaceX Competitor OneWeb Is Reportedly Bankrupt >>
* OneWeb reportedly heads into bankruptcy and SpaceX might be next >>

* Why the US can’t go back to work by Easter >>
* Ai Debate Gary Marcus Danny Lange >>

* VMware’s Sanjay Poonen: Only the strongest enterprises will survive the pandemic >>
* Analysis: Pandemic’s effects will now take IT spending negative for the year >>
* New trailers: Killing Eve, Upload, Murder House Flip, and more >>

* A Norwegian school quit using video calls after a naked man ‘guessed’ the meeting link >>
* Coronavirus: Zoom is in everyone’s living room – how safe is it? >>
* This Mobile And Universally-Compatible Vr Headset Plans To Make Cinema Theaters Obsolete >>

* Microsoft’s telco ambitions still unclear after Affirmed purchase >>

* How TED-Ed is helping families, students and teachers navigate the COVID-19 pandemic >>
* A.I. Versus the Coronavirus >>
* What the Right To Repair Movement Gets Wrong >>

* Video Friday: Qoobo the Headless Robot Cat Is Back >>
* Upgraded Google Glass Helps Autistic Kids “See” Emotions >>
* Superconductoring Alloys Found in Meteorites >>

* Scientists Use Stem Cells to Treat COVID-19 Patients in China >>
* New York and USA Surging Coronavirus Hospitalizations >>
* New Approach Could Protect Control Systems From Hackers >>

* COVID-19 Makes It Clear That Broadband Access Is a Human Right >>
* US launches advanced satellite in 1st Space Force national security mission >>
* SpaceX encounters problem just before Crew Dragon parachute test >>

* A full breakdown of what channels you get with every Sling TV package, plus all the add-ons >>
* 3 Questions: The risks of using 3D printing to make personal protective equipment >>

* Telco metadata grab is for modelling COVID-19 spread, not tracking citizens, says EC >>
* Tesla to reduce on-site staff at Nevada gigafactory by 75% >>
* Tesla’s Autopilot could soon detect traffic lights >>

* The Ibuprofen Debate Reveals the Danger of Covid-19 Rumors >>
* These 16 movies will be available online early to help ease your coronavirus anxiety >>

* Silicon Valley Is Saving Our Asses—for Now >>
* Labs respond to a call; MIT sends thousands of items directly to area hospitals in need. >>
* Cosmos: Possible Worlds episode 5 explores the ‘cosmic connectome’ >>

* Coronavirus pandemic’s global impact seen from space in chilling satellite images >>
* Kind Words is the rare social network where everyone is nice >>
* Google Cancels Its Infamous April Fools’ Jokes This Year >>

* LG TVs add a Movies Anywhere app >>
* Original Content podcast: ‘Tiger King’ might be the wildest show on Netflix >>
* Protecting Ourselves from the Next Pandemic >>

* Wuhan seafood vendor believed to be one of the first coronavirus patients says ‘a lot fewer people would have died’ if the Chinese government acted sooner >>
* Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has the cash to buy Tesla, Starbucks, or McDonald’s after the coronavirus sell-off >>
* Lockdown means energy bills will rise. Here’s how to keep costs down >>

* Lockdown means energy bills will rise. Here’s how to keep costs down >>
* Survey: Spanish consumer sentiment during the coronavirus crisis >>
* Survey: Chinese consumer sentiment during the coronavirus crisis >>
* Survey: UK consumer sentiment during the coronavirus crisis >>

* Airbnb To Provide Free or Subsidized Housing For 100,000 COVID-19 Healthcare Workers >>
* AT&T and Cricket offer customers a $15 plan for a limited time >>
* A.I. Versus the Coronavirus >>

* Dyson to manufacture 15,000 ventilators following UK call for help >>
* Google Duo’s group video limit rises to 12 people just at the right time >>

* Food delivery apps, the pandemic and finding a new normal >>
* Key vote on Alphabet’s smart neighborhood delayed over coronavirus >>
* Los Angeles-based Ficto launches its Quibi competitor — with Niantic as a content partner >>

* MIT-based team works on rapid deployment of open-source, low-cost ventilator >>
* NYU makes face shield design for healthcare workers that can be built in under a minute available to all >>
* Naked man crashing school’s video call is a privacy lesson for all >>

* Netflix is working on a live-action ‘Dragon’s Lair’ movie >>
* Not all entrepreneurs are 30-year-old guys >>
* Record Jobless Claims Are Overwhelming States’ Aging Tech >>

* Tesla’s Autopilot could soon detect traffic lights >>
* 10 Digital Miscommunications — and How to Avoid Them >>
* Coronavirus Is a Wake-Up Call for Supply Chain Management >>

* Alexa can tell you what to do if you think you have COVID-19 >>
* Canceled conferences will force startups to focus on scalable lead generation >>
* The Amazon Warehouse Worker Who Can’t Stay Home >>

* Ep101: The WebAssembly Episode, feat. Tyler McMullen >>
* Stop Complaining About Being at Home >>
* List of things to do in Quarantine time >>

* This Week in Programming: How Devs Can Help Beat the COVID-19 Pandemic >>
* Chinese tech giants Tencent, Huawei team up to develop mobile cloud gaming platform, explore AR and VR in games >>
* China’s economy was hit hard by the pandemic. Its 5G ambitions could be crucial to its recovery >>

* What The World’s Busiest Landmarks Looked Like Before The Coronavirus And After >>
* A Visualization Of The Potential Spread Of The Coronavirus Connected To A Single Beach During Spring Break >>
* How The Coronavirus Spreads Under Different Simulations Ranging From Lax Restrictions To Extreme Social Distancing And Early Testing >>

* Have You Been Washing Your Hands The Wrong Way This Whole Time? Here’s The Right Way >>
* A visit to the supermarket >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 March 2020.

* NASCAR turns to video games due to coronavirus – highest rated esports broadcast ever with first virtual race >>
* Data from one million ‘smart thermometers’ suggests strict social distancing measures may be key to ‘breaking the chain’ >>
* Coronavirus latest news: Covid-19 antibody test ready ‘in days’ >>

* Lawmakers Question Start-Ups on At-Home Kits for Coronavirus Testing >>
* A grocery store threw out $35,000 in food that a woman intentionally coughed on >>

* Huawei P40 Pro and Pro Plus challenge Samsung’s camera supremacy >>
* Watch Huawei’s P40 launch event right here at 9AM ET >>
* Dyson plans to build 15,000 ventilators to fight COVID-19 >>

* An interactive visualization of the exponential spread of COVID-19 >>
* Engineers test a powered ‘ankle exoskeleton’ to make running easier >>
* 16 Ways Coronavirus May Change the Way We Look at the World >>

* The Effects of COVID-19 Will Ripple through Food Systems >>
* Robots could be trained to disinfect surfaces, take temperatures, collecting swabs and provide social support >>
* 3D-printing company Formlabs expects its swabs to receive FDA exemption >>

* Hangzhou park security uses AI-powered smart glasses to detect people with fever >>
* The COVID-19 pandemic is generating tons of medical waste >>
* Jupe is a new startup aiming to address hospital room shortfalls with modular, mobile space >>

* We still don’t understand a basic fact about the universe >>
* Netflix is currently down for many users around the world >>
* Booze used to make hand sanitizer >>

* Rapid Aging Reversal Achieved With Human Cells >>
* Millions of COVID-19 Blood Tests Will Firm Up What the Worse Case Actually Is >>
* Lack of Air Traffic Control Staff and Passengers Could Shutdown Air Travel >>

* Over 400,000 coronavirus cases reported globally: WHO >>
* Japan virus success has puzzled the world; Is luck running out? >>
* U.S. Jobless Claims Jump to 3.28 Million, Quadruple Prior Record >>
* Mexicans demand crackdown on Americans crossing the border >>
* Australia to shutdown state-by-state as cases set to surpass 3000 >>
* The Covid-19 mental health crisis: expect depression, anxiety and stress disorders, researchers warn >>
* Coronavirus latest news: Economic impact of pandemic ‘worse than 2008’ >>

* Asia’s second wave >>
* Chamath Palihapitiya: “The investing landscape is done” >>
* JRE #1448 – JOEY DIAZ >>

* McDonald’s and other brands are making ‘social distancing’ logos >>
* Jacinda Ardern hosts coronavirus Facebook Live from her home >>
* Watch ULA’s first dedicated rocket launch for the U.S. Space Force live >>

* Tokyo Olympics to be postponed until 2021 but keeps name ‘Tokyo 2020’ >>
* Unemployment in Israel surges past 20%; almost 700,000 jobless sign up in March >>
* Coronavirus in Argentina: Worst yet to come, quarantine extended >>

* Coronavirus memes help an isolated world cope with ‘existential dread’ >>
* CableLabs unleashes DOCSIS 4.0 specs >>
* Microsoft acquires 5G specialist Affirmed Networks >>

* How coronavirus is transforming online dating and sex >>
* COVID-19: IT Spending Impact March 26, 2020 >>
* Coronavirus Is the Worst Intelligence Failure in U.S. History >>

* Kubernetes 1.18 Brings Kubectl Debugging, Ingress Improvements >>
* Knative Crowds out Other Serverless Software Packages >>
* Automating IT Operations With Oracle Functions >>

* Almost 72 per cent of Chinese SMEs have resumed work amid push to digitise businesses, ministry says >>
* Alibaba’s Taobao launches platform to help factories digitalise their operations in China >>
* Amazon warehouse workers are outraged after a coworker tested positive for COVID-19 and they weren’t notified >>

* Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic >>
* The World’s Largest Airplane Flies Again >>
* Flight Operations Crew Demonstrate How They Keep Jets From Falling Off A Aircraft Carrier >>

* When Secret Mystery Planes Landed At The Air Bases Where I Was Stationed >>
* Experts Say The Coronavirus Outlook Has Worsened, But The Trajectory Is Still Unclear >>
* Palo Alto Networks aims to secure DevOps workflows with new Prisma Cloud release >>

* AWS brings its Outposts hybrid cloud service to GovCloud users >>
* Slack rockets past a billion usage minutes per day after adding 9,000 new customers >>
* Analyzing and optimizing Amazon Lex conversations using Dashbot >>

* Dino-killing asteroid choked whole world in dust within a few hours >>

* Can Soap REALLY “Kill” the Coronavirus? >>
* The future of collectibles is digital >>

* The Analogy Between Covid-19 and Climate Change Is Eerily Precise >>
* Prototype thrusters designed for use on the Moon undergo key hot-fire testing >>
* Doctors Are Pooling Data to Help Understand Covid-19 >>

* Coronavirus Is Widening the Corporate Digital Divide >>
* Comcast, Verizon make some on-demand viewing free >>
* How long does coronavirus stay on surfaces and can they infect you? >>

* How new CEOs can manage for the future >>
* The modern CISO: Managing scale, building trust, and enabling the business >>
* Protecting the business: Views from the CIO’s and CISO’s offices >>

* AGI in a vulnerable world >>
* Disney+ finally launches in the UK and other European countries >>
* Amazon Prime Video to support up to six user profiles on one account >>

* Warming oceans are causing marine life to shift towards the poles >>

* Velociraptor relative had a much stronger grip than its cousins >>

* AI and big data won’t work miracles in the fight against coronavirus >>

* Boeing skyrockets 24% on optimism that a coronavirus relief deal >>
* Airlines would get $60 billion bailout >>
* A hacker stole and leaked the Xbox Series X graphics source code >>

* We might be living in a gigantic, intergalactic bubble >>
* Inside a Chip Foundry During the COVID-19 Pandemic >>
* Halting COVID-19: The Benefits and Risks of Digital Contact Tracing >>

* This Powerful Ion Engine Will Be Flying on NASA’s DART Mission to Try and Redirect an Asteroid >>
* Analyzing and optimizing Amazon Lex conversations using Dashbot >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 March 2020

* Global coronavirus deaths pass 20,000 >>
* Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID-19 >>
* Prince Charles’ coronavirus diagnosis is a huge deal for Brits, the monarchy. Here’s why. >>

* Shutdown Spotlights Economic Cost of Saving Lives >>
* Bill Gates says we can’t restart the economy soon and simply “ignore that pile of bodies over in the corner” >>
* Life and work will never be the same in China as attempts a post-virus tech restart >>
* This Is Just the Beginning >>
* How the Pandemic Will End >>
* We need economic relief now. Climate policy can come later. >>

* SpaceX parachute test failure could further delay crewed flight >>
* SpaceX approved to build 1 MILLION ‘user terminals’ for its satellite constellation >>

* Xbox and PlayStation networks adjusted due to surging demand >>
* Facebook Is ‘Just Trying to Keep the Lights On’ as Traffic Soars in Pandemic >>
* Samsung is first to ship RAM produced with extreme ultraviolet tech >>

* Digital Payments Soar Amid Coronavirus Restrictions >>
* The a16z Podcast: The Delivery-Optimized Future of Food >>
* Telecoms.com: COVID-19, video and disruption >>
* Keeping an Eye on AI: Building Ethical Technology at Salesforce – Ep. 110 >>

* Coronavirus deals blow to Putin’s plans to stay in power until 2036 >>
* Coronavirus RNA found in Princess Cruise ship cabins up to 17 days after passengers left >>
* EXCLUSIVE: Super-fit cycling fanatic, 40, with no underlying health conditions, battles COVID-19 as wife tells young people ‘you are not invincible’ >>

* From Monoliths to Microservices A Tale of Migrations >>
* ‘Second Life’ creator sells its ambitious social VR platform >>
* Looking back at Zoom’s ascent a year after it filed to go public >>

* CDC Says Coronavirus RNA Found in Princess Cruise Ship Cabins Up To 17 Days After Passengers Left >>
* Turning Back the Clock on Aging Cells >>
* Coronavirus home lesson plans, coming for free in ‘Minecraft’ >>
* Interest in VPN Increases as Users in Quarantine Look for Diverse Content >>

* CBS offers a free month of All Access so you can binge-watch ‘Picard’ >>
* Indian telcos gear up to ensure connectivity in the time of COVID-19 >>
* Prototype thrusters designed for use on the Moon undergo key hot-fire testing >>

* 3GPP delays 5G standards work by three months >>
* US wirele >>
* What the hell is going on with coronavirus testing in the US? >>

* A new app might help researchers monitor the spread of coronavirus >>
* Sanjay Poonen, VMware >>
* Watch This Neural Network Technology Flawlessly Blend 2D Images Into 3D Scenes >>
* A drone can hear the shape of a room >>
* UPS to develop new delivery drones with Wingcopter >>

* Covid-19 Poses a Heightened Threat in Jails and Prisons >>
* Google Podcasts app comes to iOS as part of a larger redesign >>
* Game downloads will be throttled to manage internet congestion >>

* How to Make At-Home Coronavirus Testing Work >>
* IBM and The Weather Channel launch detailed local COVID-19 maps and data tracking >>
* Global ‘internet pressure’ map reveals how rolling lockdowns due to coronavirus are putting stress on broadband infrastructure >>

* Are HEPA filters likely to pull COVID-19 out of the air? >>
* Edge of the Galaxy: Milky Way is bigger than astronomers first thought >>
* A Coronavirus Vaccine Could Be the First That Outwits Nature >>

* Senate, White House reach deal on $2 trillion stimulus package to lessen COVID-19’s economic impact >>
* United Airlines will now cut its domestic flights by 52% >>
* Chinese smartphone giants suspend manufacturing in India amid coronavirus lockdown >>

* Hubble captures the immense ‘tsunami’ power of quasars >>
* An interactive visualization of the exponential spread of COVD-19 >>
* Hospitals Need Cash. Health Insurers Have It. >>

* Graphene Solar Thermal Film Could Be a New Way to Harvest Renewable Energy >>
* IT services sector faces armageddon as COVID-19 lockdown forces project cancellations >>
* n enterprise SSD flaw will brick hardware after exactly 40,000 hours >>

* Microsoft will pause optional non-security Windows updates >>
* New coronavirus research suggests vaccines developed to treat it could be long-lasting >>
* Can you catch the coronavirus twice? We don’t know yet >>

* AWS delivers sessions online at NVIDIA GTC Digital >>
* Building a trash sorter with AWS DeepLens >>
* Making accurate energy consumption predictions with Amazon Forecast >>

* Coronavirus latest news: Wuhan plans to end lockdown in April >>
* Why US society is so vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic >>
* Will String Theory Finally Be Put to the Experimental Test? >>

* When the Most Important Technology Is Teamwork >>
* Decision making in uncertain times >>
* The Search for E.T. Goes on Hold, for Now >>

* Bezos dumped $3.4B in Amazon shares just before coronavirus tanked the stock market >>
* What i learned when my husband got sick with Coronavirus >>
* Everything NASA Is Shutting Down in Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic >>

* Do you have a cold, the flu, or COVID-19? >>
* Whole of New Zealand in self-isolation in battle against disease >>
* Netflix to limit the strain it’s putting on NZ broadband >>

* ‘Lost In Space’ will return for season 3 on Netflix >>
* Elon Musk says he’ll have 1,200 ventilators ready to deliver this week >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 March 2020

* India, population 1.3 billion, orders ‘complete’ coronavirus lockdown >>
* Japanese PM and IOC chief agree to postpone 2020 Olympics until 2021 >>
* Amazon Care to provide delivery and pick-up of at-home COVID-19 test kits in Seattle trial >>

* Trump says he wants the country ‘opened up and just raring to go by Easter,’ despite health experts’ warnings >>
* Trump’s Itch to Reboot the Economy Would Be a Fatal Error >>
* Economic Shutdown Is Estimated To Save 600,000 American Lives >>

* Google Invents AI That Learns a Key Part of Chip Design >>
* Fake Covid-19 Test Results >>
* Medical workers in San Francisco are wearing smart rings that can monitor body temperature to detect symptoms early >>

* Google for Games Developer Summit >>
* Everything announced at the Google for Games Developer Summit >>

* Apps, Websites and Games for Stir-Crazy Families >>
* This is how you can co-watch during a coronavirus lockdown >>
* How to use Netflix Party to stream movies with your friends >>
* Amazon is offering free access to kid-friendly Prime Video content >>
* The COVID-19 crisis is giving parents a taste of digital ‘unschooling’ >>

* Hydraulic Press Proves You Can Fold Paper More Than Seven Times With The Right Amount Of Power >>
* ZOOM Cloud Meetings >>
* How to update the Zoom app on your computer in 3 easy steps >>
* Apple Music’s AI-generated upbeat playlist helps you cope with reality >>

* A new AI passes the smell test almost 100% of the time >>
* Techie collective to whip together official WHO-backed COVID-19 app within a week to meet ‘urgent, global need’ >>
* Coronavirus might last on surfaces for a lot longer than we thought >>

* Italy virus deaths rise but infections slow again >>
* Coronavirus in Argentina: Worst yet to come, quarantine may be extended >>
* Coronavirus pandemic changes life as we know it >>
* Why the UK’s coronavirus lockdown could last much longer than three weeks >>

* Beyond coronavirus: The path to the next normal >>
* Safeguarding our lives and our livelihoods: The imperative of our time >>
* A blueprint for remote working: Lessons from China >>

* Smartphone shipments tumbled 38 percent in February >>
* Scientists warn there will be more diseases like this in the future >>
* Elon Musk said he sourced 1,255 ventilators from China and shipped them to LA >>

* Google makes it easier to play Android apps before they’ve finished loading >>
* FDA updates COVID-19 testing guidelines to allow self-swab tests >>

* We All Need to Think Both Fast and Slow to Survive Covid-19 >>
* You Can See the Coronavirus From Space >>
* UPS is developing quieter and more versatile delivery drones >>

* Bigelow Aerospace laid off all of its workers >>
* YouTube is reducing its default video quality to standard definition for the next month >>
* I’m 26. Coronavirus Sent Me to the Hospital. >>

* 5G, edge computing, small cells to get more attention after pandemic >>
* COVID-19 stokes fear of the surveillance society >>
* FierceWireless Presents: 5G BLITZ Week Free Virtual Event >>

* Dell EMC: Cloud Data Protection Momentum >>
* Impossible CEO says it can make a meat ‘unlike anything that you’ve had before’ >>
* Free Remote Endpoint Protection From Qualys >>

* The State of Open Source Security Vulnerabilities >>
* Building Stateful Workloads in Kubernetes [Webinar Sign-up] >>
* How a First Time CTO Can Choose the Right Techstack for Their Startup >>

* Digital Transformation Efforts Hindered by Lack of Upskilling >>
* Can Smart Thermometer Data Predict the COVID-19 Pandemic? >>
* China launches new remote sensing satellites >>

* JD Logistics to hire 20,000 more delivery and warehouse workers, giving priority to those below poverty line >>
* Researchers highlight racial bias in speech recognition systems >>
* How to see a therapist when you’re stuck indoors >>

* Wyze’s Alexa-equipped fitness tracker costs $25 >>
* Reddit makes creating a poll as easy as creating a post >>

* How South Korea Flattened the Curve >>
* The Promising Math Behind ‘Flattening the Curve’ >>
* What a Coronavirus Recovery Could Look Like >>

* Coping with Fatigue, Fear, and Panic During a Crisis >>
* Coronavirus: NZ hospitals could treble ICU capacity to meet Covid-19 surge >>
* Mindfulness shown to reduce paranoia in 7 days >>

* Use Cruise Ships as Added Non-Coronavirus Hospitals For Italy and Elsewhere >>
* NASA supercomputers join fight against coronavirus >>
* NASA Chooses 4 New Astronomy Space Missions for Additional Study >>

* Astronomers test string theory using NASA’s Chandra X-ray space telescope >>
* The unreasonable importance of data preparation >>
* How high performing companies develop and scale AI >>

* Asterix creator Albert Uderzo dies at 92 >>
* You are not alone: Coronavirus crisis has damaged retirement plans of many Americans >>
* Self-driving car company Waymo is expanding into trucks and package delivery programs >>

* Tiny meteorite found in Antarctica came from an unknown asteroid >>

* Tiny Gyroscope Is 10,000x More Accurate Than Your Phone’S >>
* GitLab offers key lessons in running an all-remote workforce in new e-book >>

* If Robots Steal So Many Jobs, Why Aren’t They Saving Us Now? >>
* How CEOs Can Lead a Data-Driven Culture >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 March 2020

* Coronavirus pandemic upends life as we know it >>
* The coronavirus pandemic is “accelerating”, the World Health Organization warns >>
* WHO Changes ‘Social Distancing’ to ‘Physical Distancing’ >>

* Four-Way and Now Nine-Way Valve Hacks for Ventilators >>

* Smart Thermometers Could Be Key To Tracking The Coronavirus, For Better Or Worse >>
* Hundreds of Millions Go Into Lockdown in India as Coronavirus Measures Come Into Force >>
* Governments around the world are increasingly using location data to manage the coronavirus >>

* Google Cloud launches Game Servers, a managed cloud backend for games >>
* New initiatives from TED to share ideas, build community and stay hopeful >>

* Strong leaders forge an intersection of knowledge and experience >>
* Leaders need to mobilize change-ready workforces >>
* Great leaders inspire innovation and creativity from within their workforces >>

* Hong Kong appeared to have the coronavirus under control, then it let its guard down >>
* Can soap really ‘kill’ the coronavirus? (video) >>
* Online learning platform sees 50,000 pupils a day signing up for classes as schools close >>

* Amazon delays shipments of nonessential items in the US by up to a month >>
* Ericsson: COVID-19 isn’t affecting equipment production, but ‘a few’ employees have virus >>
* Which Covid-19 drugs work best? >>

* Fed’s Message: The Money-Printing Presses Are Fired Up and Ready to Go >>
* Trump Weighs Easing Stay-at-Home Advice to Curb Economic Rout >>
* Trump itching to scale back social distancing after 15 day-period, aides say >>
* Senate Democrats Block Aid Package, Seeking Stronger Protections for Workers >>

* Jeff Bezos tells Amazon staff grappling with pandemic: ‘People are depending on us’ >>
* Rio’s favelas prepare for the worst amid coronavirus fears >>
* More than one billion told to stay home worldwide over virus >>

* Kubernetes Going Mainstream — Innovative Startups Rise >>
* Australia’s hospitality sector goes contactless to reduce COVID-19 spread >>
* Human vaccine trial gets underway >>

* 400,000 new people have joined Folding@Home’s fight against COVID-19 >>
* This Bugatti Hyper Truck Is the Escape From Reality We Need >>
* Will Governments Restrict Foreign Access to Pandemic Supplies? >>

* Door to door cocktails allowed as nsw government lifts restrictions >>
* Tokyo 2020: Olympics to be postponed until 2021, says IOC member >>

* Younger people critically ill with coronavirus in Sydney hospitals >>
* Crowds packed California beaches despite shelter in place order >>
* Coronavirus pandemic upends life as we know it >>

* What Happens When Tech Companies Offer to Fight Coronavirus With Digital Surveillance? >>
* Emirates will suspend most passenger flights by March 25 >>
* Huawei P40 Pro may feature 50X zoom, custom photography chip >>

* Coronavirus transforms peak internet usage into the new normal >>
* The a16z WFH Podcast: Remote Work and Our New Reality >>
* KDDI preps 5G service sandwich, puts AWS Wavelength to work >>

* Google launches Kubernetes-built ‘Game Servers’ beta for high-scalability cloud gaming backend >>
* New normal: Coronavirus shifts IT spending to work-from-home infrastructure >>
* IBM-backed consortium opens up 16 supercomputers for coronavirus research >>

* Microsoft says hackers are attacking Windows users with a new unpatched bug >>
* A look inside one startup’s work-from-home playbook >>
* Living in Lockdown: What’s the Appropriate Response to the Coronavirus? >>

* GitLab’s Timely Survey Explores the Benefits of Working from Home >>
* Top 10 Jobs With AWS Certification >>
* Verizon gives customers extra mobile data, drops broadband data caps >>

* Amazon to start paying US warehouse workers double time for all overtime hours >>
* The Verge Guide To Working At Home >>
* Predicting a Post-Pandemic Future: Remote Working and Distance Learning? >>

* What San Francisco Looks Like Now After The Shelter In Place Order >>
* Once Again, Florida Waited Too Long >>
* Lockdown in the ‘land of plenty’ >>

* Coronavirus: What are essential services? >>
* Coronavirus: Ventilator solution is there if we look hard enough, says Glen Herud >>
* Coronavirus is bringing a plague of dangerous doomsday predictions >>

* Survey: US consumer sentiment during the coronavirus crisis >>
* Nanostructured rubber-like material could replace human tissue >>
* Hacking Voice Assistants with Ultrasonic Waves >>

* Antibodies from COVID-19 survivors could be used to treat patients, protect those at risk >>
* Flat-panel technology could transform antennas, wireless and cell phone communications >>
* Coronavirus pandemic: Welcome to The Cabin Fever Podcast >>

* Stock-market turning point might depend on easing of fear, not arrival or end of recession >>
* You are not alone: Coronavirus crisis has damaged retirement plans >>
* Hand Sanitizer: What Can You Do in the Meantime? >>

* Critical coronavirus patients in Italy are being treated with bubble-shaped containers over their heads. Here’s what they do. >>
* When Coronavirus Closes Your Lab, Can Science Go On? >>
* WIRED’s Video Guide to Extreme Indoor Activities >>

* One neat plug-in to join a Zoom call from your browser >>
* Oprah Winfrey’s new Apple TV+ show, ‘Oprah Talks COVID-19 >>
* Non-profit launches COVID-19 treatment and vaccine tracker with daily updates >>

* Google is rolling out a redesigned Podcasts app to some Android users >>
* Amazon Prime Video finally introduces viewer profiles >>
* A Third of Coronavirus Cases May Be ‘Silent Carriers’, Classified Chinese Data Suggests >>

* NASA pauses work on James Webb Space Telescope due to coronavirus >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 March 2020

* 16 Minutes on the News #27: The Economic Virus – Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, and Small Business >>
* Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How. >>
* The coronavirus pandemic is a game changer for mental health care >>

* The digital transformation you weren’t expecting >>
* Adapting Episode 1: Canlis >>
* ‘Another productive day working from home’ in the great COVID-19 quarantine >>

* Isinnova shares 3D printed adapter to turn snorkeling mask into a non-invasive ventilator >>
* COVID-19 How to Use One Ventilator to Save Multiple Lives >>
* Tokyo Olympics organisers considering options to delay – reports >>

* Car on a Trampoline: More Kicks With Kinetic Energy >>
* SpaceX SHS Rocket Switching to 304L Steel and Then Custom Alloy >>
* Announcing TED Connects: live, daily conversations from TED >>

* New nuclear fusion reactor design may be a breakthrough >>
* SpaceX Starship SN3 Rapid Stacking and News, Starlink 5 & missing Booster, Rocket Lab announcements >>
* OneWeb launches 34 more satellites for growing internet constellation >>

* Coronavirus: Experts fear India will be the next Covid-19 hotspot >>
* Why we’re not overreacting to the coronavirus, in one chart >>
* Social distancing takes flight as airlines in Asia-Pacific experiment with putting space between passengers >>

* With kids and adults staying at home, are virtual worlds ready for primetime? >>
* What’s a ‘Shelter in Place’ Order, and Who’s Affected? >>
* How Surveillance Could Save Lives Amid a Public Health Crisis >>

* Germany’s Merkel in Quarantine; Europe Clamps Down: Virus Update >>
* Queen at Windsor after staff member’s positive Buckingham Palace >>
* Coronavirus: Australian states to go into lockdown >>

* Americans Coping With the Coronavirus Are Clogging Toilets >>
* TED “Social Interest” How repaying loans with social service transforms communities >>
* TED Go Ahead Dream About The Future >>

* Glut of Jet Fuel Is on Brink of Overwhelming Global Storage >>
* The Virus Is Teaching Everyone What Runaway Growth Really Means >>
* Sunday Strategist: The Sharing Economy May Never Be the Same >>

* Coronavirus cases top 300,000 worldwide >>
* Australia’s hospitality sector goes contactless to reduce COVID-19 spread >>
* Scott Morrison shuts down pubs, gyms and restaurants for six months >>
* Only A ‘5-Week National Lockdown’ Can Contain Coronavirus In America, MIT-Trained Pandemics Expert Declares >>

* COVID-19 damages retirement plans >>
* U.S. Orders Up To A Yearlong Break On Mortgage Payments >>
* Medical supplies from China arrive to help Iran >>
* Coronavirus Recession Looms, Its Course ‘Unrecognizable’ >>

* 46 new confirmed COVID-19 cases reported on Chinese mainland >>
* Prefabricated flats quickly take shape in Hong Kong as city tries out new construction technique >>
* Google and YouTube launch new resources to help teachers and families educate students at home >>

* AT&T CEO addresses major surge in mobile, Wi-Fi usage as more people work from home >>
* Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company is donating “millions” of masks to healthcare workers >>
* A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure From COVID-19 — Even in His Young Patients >>

* Doorbell Camera Captures Cat Really Giving Its All To Get Back Into House >>
* How the Virus Got Out >>

* Coronavirus is revealing how badly the UK has failed its most vulnerable >>
* Singapore’s coronavirus playbook: How it fought back against the COVID-19 epidemic >>
* PS5 Specs, Quest Updates And Win BoxVR! – VRecap >>
* An Epidemic of False Confidence Related to COVID-19 >>

* AT&T scraps $4B stock buyback plan as carriers adjust to internet traffic demands >>
* Pandemic pullback: Remote-work investment won’t fully offset IT budget declines >>
* JRE #1445 – ANDY STUMPF Navy SEAL and was also a two-time wingsuit world record holder. >>

* Amazon needs to take on Xbox and PlayStation gaming console dominance >>
* Deepfakes: Experts on how ‘face swap’ could turn sinister >>
* WHO Health Alert brings COVID-19 facts to billions via WhatsApp >>

* Millions of Americans are suddenly working from home. That’s a huge security risk >>
* First coronavirus case on US Navy ship – sailor tests positive >>
* Drone plays dodgeball to demo fast new obstacle detection system >>

* Could we use current AI methods to understand dolphins? >>
* TRILLIONS! Bailouts for Airlines & Boeing and Banks? What, me worry? >>
* Brazilians protest against Bolsonaro’s muddled coronavirus response >>

* Zoom alternatives: what about Hangouts, Skype and Teams? >>
* U.S. Official Says Some Areas Will Have to Wait for Medical Supplies >>
* The Game Developers Conference Is Now Scheduled for Summer >>

* Paramount cancels movie’s theatrical release in favor of Netflix >>
* Netflix creates $100 million fund to support creators during pandemic >>
* Amazon, Apple and Microsoft CEOs detail their companies’ efforts to combat coronavirus pandemic >>

* A new type of COVID-19 test now approved for use could help with frontline diagnostics >>
* New York Has Over 45,000 Tests So More Infections Were Found >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 March 2020

* AI camera detects people who may have COVID-19 >>
* COVID-19: A neural network that can detect coughing >>
* Vergecast: Apple announces new iPad Pro and MacBook Air, Sony reveals PS5 specs >>

* Hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine and other potential COVID-19 treatments explained >>
* Coronavirus: Robots use light beams to zap hospital viruses >>

* Microsoft unveils a ‘real time noise suppression’ tool for conference calls >>
* Microsoft sees huge boost to Teams with 44 million, with COVID-19 sending workers home >>
* Amazon is cutting Prime Video streaming bitrates in Europe >>

* This toilet paper calculator lets you know how long your bathroom stash will last >>
* Video Friday: Robots Help Keep Medical Staff Safe at COVID-19 Hospital >>
* John Hopkins Tracker; COVID-19 Global Cases >>

* Coronavirus deaths top 11,000 globally >>
* 793 dead in Italy in a single day, Spain’s death toll jumps by 30 per cent while COVID-19 cases in Australia surpass 1,000 >>
* 30 days that brought the world to the brink of a depression >>
* Why does Russia, population 146 million, have fewer coronavirus cases than Luxembourg? >>
* US and Mexico close border to all ‘non-essential travel’ due to coronavirus crisis >>
* Economic Fear Factor >>
* Coronavirus: concern in Wuhan community over suspected asymptomatic case >>
* Total Cost of Her COVID-19 Treatment: $34,927.43 >>

* Scientists Can Work From Home When the Lab Is in the Cloud >>
* Coronavirus: How the world’s streets are emptying >>
* The world’s fastest supercomputer identified chemicals that could stop coronavirus from spreading >>

* Virtual Meetings Don’t Have to Be a Bore >>
* Engadget Podcast: Can telehealth save us? >>
* Go Ahead, Stream All You Want. The Internet Is Fine—for Now >>

* FluSense system tracks sickness trends by autonomously monitoring public spaces >>
* As Covid-19 Spreads, Truckers Need to Keep on Trucking >>
* China Launches National Blockchain Network in 100 Cities >>

* Engineers develop soft robot that can grow and shapeshift >>
* Entertainers pivot to video as coronavirus shutters clubs >>
* The Morning After: First impressions of the new MacBook Air >>

* Bombing asteroid Ryugu reveals it is a spritely 9 million years old >>
* Coronavirus latest news: China reports no new local cases >>
* Genetically modified neurons could help us connect to implants >>

* Original Content podcast: Apple’s ‘Amazing Stories’ is thoroughly unamazing >>
* Elon Musk says that SpaceX Has no Plans to Spin Off Starlink >>
* Stuart Russell on how to make AI ‘human-compatible’ >>

* Goldman Sachs predicts brutal second quarter as unemployment spikes above 2 million >>
* Coronavirus: Government to pay up to 80% of workers’ wages >>
* As Coronavirus Looms, Mask Shortage Gives Rise to Startling Solution >>

* Google won’t hold a virtual I/O this year >>
* Economic Conditions Snapshot, March 2020: McKinsey Global Survey results >>
* A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure From COVID-19 — Even in His Young Patients >>

* Goldman Sachs CEO gets 19% raise, bumping his pay to $27.5 million >>
* Search for Coronavirus Vaccine Becomes a Global Competition >>
* The Coronavirus Crisis Doesn’t Have to Lead to Layoffs >>

* Coronavirus Sets the Stage for Hacking Mayhem >>
* American Airlines will use passenger planes for cargo-only flights to Europe >>
* Bringing more people online and introducing Camera Go >>

* Even in the age of COVID-19, you need to stay focused on the customer >>
* How Bad Times Bring Out the Best in People >>
* No, 5G didn’t start a pandemic >>

* Dating in the Age of Social Distancing >>
* The Upsides of a Global Pandemic >>
* Data from China shows the majority of people with Covid-19 only suffer mild symptoms, then recover >>
* Why the Coronavirus Has Been So Successful >>
* What to watch from TED on the coronavirus outbreak >>

* Netflix, YouTube, Amazon cut streaming bit rates in Europe as internet usage surges >>
* Friday Fun: Movies for social distancing >>
* Doctors Say Shortage of Protective Gear Is Dire >>

* Bill Gates says China’s quarantine efforts helped beat Covid-19 >>
* Lessons from the lockdown >>
* Walmart wants to hire 150,000 workers to meet demand during coronavirus pandemic >>

* Potential coronavirus second wave has China on high alert >>
* A chunk of Yellowstone the size of Chicago has been pulsing. Why? >>
* When Medicine Goes Virtual >>

* Australian government asks streaming companies to throttle NBN traffic >>
* The coronavirus pandemic is a game changer for mental health care >>
* Survey Data Shows COVID-19 Drops 2020 IT Growth to 0% >>

* Vergecast: Apple announces new iPad Pro and MacBook Air, Sony reveals PS5 specs >>
* For Uber and Lyft, this week has been a wild ride >>
* MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests >>

* UX Takeaways From An Indian Food Delivery App That Serves 1.4 Million Orders Everyday >>
* AI Powers a Potential App for At-Home Coronavirus Risk Assessment >>
* Amazon halts grocery orders to restock amid surging demand due to coronavirus worries >>

* Reduce ML inference costs on Amazon SageMaker for PyTorch models using Amazon Elastic Inference >>
* ‘See you in orbit?’ New book tackles the enduring dream of public spaceflight >>
* How a ‘muon accelerator’ could unravel some of the universe’s greatest mysteries >>

* NASA asks public to design sensors for Venus rover concept >>
* The year 2022 is going to be lit! (With NASA space launches.) >>
* What quarantine is like for an astronaut >>

* Arm Flexible Access for Automotive Applications >>
* Five Companies Using AI to Fight Coronavirus >>
* Galactic Energy Prepares Ceres-1 Rocket for First Launch >>

* India launches WhatsApp chatbot to create awareness about coronavirus, asks social media services to curb spread of misinformation >>
* Italy is a 12 Day Preview of US Coronavirus Future >>
* Coronavirus Pandemic: A Call to Action for the Robotics Community >>

* A Different Way to Chart the Spread of Coronavirus >>
* WhatsApp Is at the Center of Coronavirus Response >>
* My gym closed, so I let this smart kettlebell kick my ass >>

* Baidu to build self-driving test facility in Chongqing >>
* VW’s e-BULLI concepts shows how your classic van can become an EV >>
* Leak reveals Fitbit’s new Charge 4 >>

* How to Detect a Government’s Hand Behind Internet Shutdowns >>
* Scientists Can Work From Home When the Lab Is in the Cloud >>
* Can the U.S. build a hospital in two weeks? >>

* Disney+ India launch postponed >>
* UK PM Johnson: Bars, pubs, restaurants to close >>
* Bar owner refuses entry to those over 70 >>

* Enterprise agility: Buzz or business impact? >>
* Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? >>

* Coronavirus isn’t a ‘Chinese virus’ no matter what Trump says >>
* Reading List for Leaders in Uncertain Times >>
* Rethink Your Relationship with Your Vendors >>
* Coronavirus has shattered the myth that the economy must come first >>

* IT update: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) >>
* Dating in the Age of Social Distancing >>
* A Guide for Working (From Home) Parents >>

* Coronavirus May Mean Automation Is Coming Sooner Than We Thought >>
* California orders its nearly 40 million residents to stay home to prevent the spread of coronavirus >>
* Coronavirus updates: Trump to close US-Mexico border, postpones student loan payments; NY unleashes strict rules >>
* 19 Suggestions for Bored Engineers >>

* How The Fatality Rate Of Coronavirus Compares To Other Deadly Epidemics In The 2000s >>
* Coronavirus: New Zealand rolls out drive-through hubs for testing Covid-19 >>
* Microsoft’s DirectX 12 Ultimate brings ray tracing effects to more games >>

* AWS launches $20M diagnostics program to support coronavirus research >>
* Colin Mahony, Vertica at Micro Focus >>

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